Re: [Wiki-research-l] [Analytics] Wikipedia Detox: Scaling up our understanding of harassment on Wikipedia

On Sat, Jun 24, 2017 at 2:49 AM, Kerry Raymond wrote: > No right to be offended? To say to someone "you don't have the right to be > offended" seems pretty offensive in itself. It seems to imply that their > cultural norms are somehow inferior or unacceptable. > I'm not

Re: [Wiki-research-l] link rot

It's worth commenting that link rot occurs at a variety of ways. The obvious way is that the URL is broken, error 404 is returned to the browser. Or but rather than send a 404 to the browser, the site redirects you to a page that says "Page not found" without an error 404. Or but you are

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Looking for examples and suggestions for research project on my work at UNESCO

Hi John, I suspect you've seen this already, but you can use MediaWiki's external link search to search for links to UNESCO. For example here's how to find links to resources hosted at en.unesco.org/mediabank in the commons:

Re: [Wiki-research-l] link rot

On 06/26/2017 04:43 PM, Mark J. Nelson wrote: James Salsman writes: Is anyone studying the rate at which external links become unavailable on Wikipedia projects? There've been a few studies over the years, but none of the ones I know of are recent. One from 2011 that

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Looking for examples and suggestions for research project on my work at UNESCO

Hoi, To what extend does UNESCO hold open licenced texts in languages other than English? Thanks, GerardM On 25 June 2017 at 15:27, john cummings wrote: > Dear all > > I've been working as Wikimedian in Residence at UNESCO for the past two > years working on a

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Looking for examples and suggestions for research project on my work at UNESCO

hi John, When you say "research project", do you mean specifically "measure the impact of a program or event", or do you mean something more general? - J On Sun, Jun 25, 2017 at 6:27 AM, john cummings wrote: > Dear all > > I've been working as Wikimedian in Residence

Re: [Wiki-research-l] link rot

James Salsman writes: > Is anyone studying the rate at which external links become unavailable > on Wikipedia projects? There've been a few studies over the years, but none of the ones I know of are recent. One from 2011 that may nonetheless be interesting is: P. Tzekou, S.

Re: [Wiki-research-l] link rot

Hi James, On Mon, Jun 26, 2017 at 8:04 AM, James Salsman wrote: > > Is anyone studying the rate at which external links become unavailable > on Wikipedia projects? > > I just did a quick tally and less than 40% of the external links cited > in the introductions of L1-vital

[Wiki-research-l] link rot

Is anyone studying the rate at which external links become unavailable on Wikipedia projects? I just did a quick tally and less than 40% of the external links cited in the introductions of L1-vital enwiki health and social science articles I sampled were good, and that's only counting those which